The most important thing is not to be dualistic

 

And for Zen students the most important thing is not to be dualistic.  We should not lose our self-satisfied state of mind.  We should not be too demanding, or we should not be too greedy.  Our mind should be always rich, and self-satisfied.  When our mind become demanding -- when we become longing for something, we will violate our precepts, not to kill, not to be immoral, not to steal, or not to tell lie, and so on.  Those are based on our greedy mind.  When our mind is self-satisfied we will keep our precepts.  When we ourselves is always self-satisfied, we have our original mind, and we can practice good, and we are always true to ourselves. 

 

Shunryu Suzuki

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